University Workshop Plan: Analyzing Global Challenges in Workplace

This report outlines a comprehensive workshop plan designed to address the multifaceted challenges faced in today's global workplaces. The workshop aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate issues such as cultural diversity, global identities, and the importance of emotional intelligence leadership. The plan details learning objectives, targeted audiences, and relevant activities, including group discussions, case studies, and interactive exercises. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing workplace discrimination, promoting self-awareness, and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. The workshop also covers the integration of activities, facilitation instructions, potential barriers, and diversity strategies to meet varied participant personalities. The report concludes with a summary of the key challenges, the competencies of emotional intelligence leaders, and the expected benefits for companies and organizations seeking to enhance workplace diversity and effectiveness. The report is available on Desklib, which provides access to past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Global Challenges in Workplace
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Part A:
Professional Workshop development Plan:
Workshop on Global Challenges in Workplace
Outline of
Workshop
This workshop mainly focuses on the different Global Challenges that are
faced in workplace. Global Challenges are the main issues that faced by
every organization and are very much essential to address the issues by
means of sharing the knowledge across various institutions, disciplines and
continents.
Learning
objectives
The main aim of this workshop aims in providing details of the factors that
runs behind the global challenges that are faced in workplaces.
LO1: At the end of the workshop we will be able to recognize the main
challenges that companies or organizations are facing nowadays in the
global market and based on it different theories are also evaluated which
will help the audiences to identify the methods by which these global
challenges may be overcome.
LO2: At the end of the workshop, one will also be able to identify the
profile type of the global workforce depending upon factors like age
profile, gender diversity, size of the workplace, flow of talent and the type
of workers that are working on the workplaces.
LO3: The workshop will also give brief idea of the different differences in
culture and society along with the competencies in the EI leaderships
which promotes to the global challenges.

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LO4: At the end of the workshop one will also be able to determine the
emotional, human and other intelligence factors that promotes to the given
topic of the workshop that is Global Challenges in workplace.
Targeted
Audiences
Audiences from different companies facing challenges in developing
global workforce training in large scale, companies for designer who aims
at developing training while designing for a multicultural environment,
audiences from different geographical parts with different cultural
diversity are the targeted audiences of the workshop on Global Challenges
in Workplace.
Relevant Activities  Participants are divided into small groups in order to get their
opinion on different global Participants are presented with an
example of a workplace facing some global challenges.
Participants review the different types of global challenges that
they have faced within their organization.
 Challenges, they think should be prioritized.
 Individuals are provided with individual blank sheet of paper to
write one sentence on their view on Global identity and
Citizenship.
 Participants are introduced with the concept of multiple
intelligences and a video is shown that explains the details of
Gardner’s multiple intelligences. Ideas are shared with each other
in every group that they feel represents the best to match their

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personality. Later reviews are taken from the participants to share
their views on their performances in group assignment.
 Participants are provided with the list of 3 components of Human
Intelligence that are explained in Gardner’s multiple intelligence.
 The next activity of the workshop will focus on the positive and
negative emotions that are faced in workplace.
 Feedbacks are taken from each of the participants about the type of
emotions that evokes them or causes change in the behavior of the
people’s performance at work place.
 The role of an Emotional Intelligence leader is thus presented and
the different types of competencies that are faced by an EI leader
are thus mentioned.
 Cultural diversity and Globalization plays a huge role in work
places. Participants views are taken on these two factors and
feedbacks are taken based on the experiences on the social and
cultural diversity that are faced by them and the positive or
negative experiences that they experienced from the outcomes.
 In the whole workshop, the group of participants are sub divided
into different groups under LGBTI, Migrants, Women, People with
disability, Indigenous Australians and old workers.
 Participants are presented with discussion questions, to guide their
conversation and encouraging them to reflect on the different work
place discrimination they faced:

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Some of the discussion questions include:
- In what ways does the group encounter workplace
discrimination?
- What are the direct and indirect consequences of that
discrimination?
- In what ways can the discrimination be eradicated?
 Self-awareness is another important factor that needs to be
introduced within the workshop discussion as it reflects the
importance of recognizing each other’s feelings and how those
feelings affects their performances at workplace.
 Based on the topic of self-awareness that is introduced within the
workshop, some of the proven results have been found from the
researches which include-
- Stronger performance
- Creative problem solving
- Better judgment making decisions
- Successful negotiations
 Participants are requested to share their reviews based on their own
feelings. Each group of the workshop are allocated with one of the
outcomes that are found from the researches and are told to identify
at least five of the feelings related to self-awareness from their
workplace.
 After detailed analysis, two different models of diversity

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prioritizing are allocated to different groups as prioritizing diversity
plays an equal role in order to gain greater performance at
workplace.
- Participant groups who have been allocated with the module
diversity climate, needs to identify a list of actions that can help
the employees to perceive the values diversity of the
organization genuinely.
- Participants who have been allocated with the module of
physiological safety, needs to identify a list of actions that can
help employees feel that they can independently express their
true selves at work.
Ways to integrate
the activities
 By the very nature, the workshop on global challenges in
workplace is an interactive one. Participants should be integrated
to become active participants so that they can contribute to the
outcome.
 Participants should be encouraged in order to speak up in groups.
 Real time polling applications needs to be incorporated in order to
encourage people to ask questions and answers from their mobile
devices.
 Ice-breakers, speed networking activities and group exercises are
well known effective ways that warms up people to actively
participate into small groups to cooperate, communicate and create.

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Instructions to
ensure that the
activities are
facilitated
In order to ensure that all these activities are facilitated properly, the
workshop venue needs to have a must have list of requirements that will
help in settling up the right space. The list of requirements that are
necessary for the workshop venue includes:
- AV support
- Wi-Fi
- Review the workshop plan
- Choose an universal language
- Create promo videos
- Create signage and an attendee communication plan
- Draft the workshop agenda
- Get approval from the decision makers
Potential barriers
to the successful
implementation of
the activities
Some of the potential limitations to this workshop includes-
 The data that is collected from the workshop activities are collected
from a small group of participants which may not represent the
views of the entire population who are working under the same
group.
 Language is another barrier that can lead to the issues in miss-
interpreting points that are discussed within the workshop.
 Time, resources and space restrictions can be another barrier that
can be faced within the workshop.
 Finally understanding and interpreting the data is limited by
cultural barriers and other contextual factors of different countries.

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Diversity of
activities to meet
the varied
personalities of the
participants
Some of the diversity activities that are incorporated within the workshop
plan in order to meet the varied personalities of the participants include:
Core facilitation tools:
 Group agreement
 Idea storms
 Small groups
 Personal introductions
 Workshop gifts
 Encouraging discussion and participation
 Evaluating and ranking ideas
Workshop time 5 to 10 minutes to introduce the instructors and the participants of the
workshop
10 minutes to introduce the objectives of the workshop
10 minutes to introduce the terms that would be used in the workshop
10 to 15 minutes for Workshop driving questions
5 to 10 minutes for Feedback and revision
4 to minutes for workshop concluding events.

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Part B:
Summary
Building a global workplace that proves to be effective in terms of production and quality is the
desired objective of the workshop. Although some multinational companies lags behind
establishing it due to some global challenges in workplace while maintaining the cultural
diversities, global identities, multiple intelligences, prioritizing diversities and many more
factors. From the planned workshop development, on the topic Global Challenges in workplace,
it is desired that the main challenges that are faced with in workplaces will be reflected.
Workplace challenges vary from organization to organizations through different countries. It is
reported that some countries do not grant the equal rights irrespective of the sexual orientations.
Even nowadays, majority of the economies lacks in resolving the gaps in gender based equality.
Besides all these maintain a cohesive culture across country boundaries also presents more
challenges for global employers to give their best at workplace and to succeed the right
opportunity. The workshop also aims in establishing some of the competencies that are faced by
emotional intelligence leaders in order to overcome the global challenges in workplace. Some of
the factors include motivation where the leaders are responsible for providing inspiration,
guidance and vision focusing on the goals of the organization. The workshop aims at developing
these competencies among the leaders as they are responsible for taking active interest in others
feelings, motivation and thoughts. The workshop aims in generating the idea among EI leaders in
order to build networks and relationships among workers exerting influences. The workshop also
aims in providing the concept of diversity that helps in promoting acceptance, respect and
collaborative team work despite the differences in age, race, gender, language or any
communication styles among the employees. In the end it is expected from the workshop that it

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can benefit companies and other organization in generating ideas in order to increase the
diversities in workplace in the rightful manner.

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